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You said:

> Sure life expectancy was low, but that’s mainly because people died young ... If you factor out all the child deaths, the average life expects wasn’t that much lower for a Knights Templar than it is for you

Where literally the second damn line of the article:

> For even wealthy landholding males, average life expectancy was about 31 years, rising to 48 years for those who made it to their twenties.




The cited study appears to be based on a review of public records of English high society, which is a very limited perspective on the question.

https://rss.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/1467-98...


I hate humanities publishing.

https://www.academia.edu/24376948/Estimation_of_life_expecta...

Tl;dr: Life expectancy at 25: ~50 in 1300-1350ish, lower during the plague.


what was the median life expectancy?

on edit: they said factor out all the early childhood deaths - which probably aren't factored out for 'average' life expectancy.


If you condition the average on reaching at least the age of twenty, that does factor out childhood deaths.


Right, which puts the average at 48. A perfect time for wisdom teeth to take you out. The statistical language people use about talking about lifespan in before-times is rotten! That whole paragraph lays it out in its mathematical glory.

> For even wealthy landholding males, average life expectancy was about 31 years, rising to 48 years for those who made it to their twenties.

Even for wealthy families infant mortality was a problem.

The AVERAGE is always the wrong metric!


This is why they provided a Windsorized average too. (of people who lived till 20s)


oops - reading fail.




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